Phil Tagg's Bibliographical Database Dumps, 2009-08-25
ESSENTIAL INSTRUCTIONS & RECOMMENDATIONS
1. Read these instructions and recommendations before doing anything else.
2. Download the file to your hard drive.
3. Unzip ensuring that you extract all of its constituent files
to the SAME FOLDER (directory) on your hard drive, otherwise the hyperlinks in the
HTML files won't work.
4. Before opening either of the HTML files —BMGSO.HTM or BMGAU.HTM—,
read the 4-page explanations file .
It might even be a good idea to print it out so you can refer to it.
5. Having read the explanations file, locate the folder on your hard drive
where you put BMGSO.HTM and open it. Your web browser should kick in.
6. Do not be alarmed if it takes a while for your web browser to load BMGSO.HTM:
it's quite a big file and may not appear instantaneously. Same goes for BMGAU.HTM.
7. Very near the top of BMGSO.HTM there are four links, the first of which, when clicked,
will open the author listing file BMGAU.HTM. Try that.
8. In the author listing (BMGAU.HTM), scroll down to an author of interest to you
(or use your web browser's [Find] facility). For example, locate "Frith, Simon" and
scroll down to "Frith, Simon (1992): Rock against racism". Click the link on the
left to see a few more details (in BMGSO.HTM) about that title, using the explanations file to
decode the hieroglyphics in small print after the title. Then go back to the author
listing (BMGAU.HTM) and click the "source object" on the right of the same line.
That will take you to the title of the volume in which Frith's contribution appeared
and give you all its publishing details. It will also show you all other contributions
to the same volume.
9. If you want to find a word in a title, or a keyword, make sure you're in BMGSO.HTM,
the main source object listing. Enter the word or phrase you want to find in your
web browser's [Find] window and press [Enter]. I just entered 'harmony' and found 108
relevant titles. Then I entered 'Presley' but only found 6. 'reggae' produced 28,
'C&W' (country [and western] music) 52, 'sociol' over 440 hits, etc.